Chapter 1443: Three Major Camps

Filling human flesh with food, robbing tombs to find gold, holding new imperial examinations, and supporting Yuan Shu......

None of Cao Cao's actions were trivial, but Cao Cao's reputation among the people was not one-sided scolding, but polarization.

There are also people who say that Cao Cao is good, and there are also people who scold him as a demon king, in short, they have their own reasons.

Cao Cao's actions are very controversial, he used human flesh to fill food, robbed tombs to find gold, in order to suppress the thief Li Zicheng, although the means are a little too radical, but the purpose is good.

As for the new imperial examination system, the imperial examination system was not the first to be proposed by Cao Cao, and he secretly supported Yuan Shu, also to govern this broken Yanzhou......

All in all, although Cao Cao did a lot of scolding, the strange thing is that the world's tolerance for him is extremely high.

Cao Cao did these incidents, even Qin Hao did not dare to touch a single thing, and if the other princes took a point, they would definitely be scolded half to death.

But Cao Cao, not only has he touched it all, but he has nothing to do, but his title is getting higher and higher, and his overall strength is getting stronger and stronger.

It has to be said that this is definitely one of the great spectacles of this era.

Although the bad things Cao Cao did attracted a lot of infamy to him, his exploits cannot be erased, after all, he killed Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng is a human, that is a giant who has been active since the Yellow Turban period, one of the three giants of the Ming Court.

It is precisely because of this credit that the people have such a high tolerance for Cao Cao, after all, the flaws are not hidden.

At the beginning, Yuan Shu rebelled, but Qin Hao's court was not recognized by the princes, and in order to contain Yuan Shu, he even directly named Zhao Kuangyin as the Duke of Song.

Now that the major princes want to be crowned, it is naturally not so easy, and they must have enough merit.

Cao Cao took the merit of killing Li Zicheng and unifying Yanzhou, if there were no such bad things, his credit for being crowned was actually enough.

But after having human flesh and other things, Cao Cao's controversy is too great, and when the merits and demerits are offset, it is naturally not difficult to be crowned.

The voices of the DPRK and China opposing Cao Cao's feudal title were endless, but Qin Hao still rewarded Cao Cao.

After all, Cao Cao stole the tombs of the kings of the Liu family, and as long as he was not sanctioned for a day, it would be a blow to the imperial power of the Han Dynasty, so Qin Hao not only did not suppress him, but also gave him the title of duke

Soon after Cao Cao unified Yanzhou, Qin Hao named him the Duke of Wei and the general of the chariot cavalry, and added 100,000 households to the city.

Since then, in addition to Zhao Kuangyin's Song Dynasty, there has been another Cao Cao's Wei State in the Central Plains.

Cao Cao is the orthodox court represented by Qin Hao, and the third prince canonized, but there are more than two feudal states in the world, and the camp can be divided into two, namely: the Han camp, the rebel camp, and the neutral camp.

Liu Ji in Shuzhong, although he proclaimed himself the king of Shu, took out the edict of the first emperor, and the court had to recognize his legitimacy;

In order to confront Liu Ji, Liu Yu called the king of Chengdu without the permission of the imperial court, but his prince was not recognized by the imperial court, so it is not an exaggeration to say that he was rebellious.

Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong, and Yang Guang, the king of the Sui dynasty in Liangzhou, were the puppet kings left behind by the puppet dynasty represented by Dong Zhuo.

Zhu Tianpeng, the king of Qi in Qingzhou, inherited the position of Huang Chao, and Huang Chao accepted Dong Zhuo's canonization.

Therefore, Li Shimin, Yang Guang, and Zhu Tianpeng are all pseudo-kings, and they are not recognized by the orthodox court, and they all belong to the rebellious camp.

Jiaozhou Hong Xiuquan, born as a Yellow Turban thief, but established himself as the king of heaven, and he was a thorn in the eye of the court.

Although Jianghuai Yuan Shu was the king, he raised troops to threaten the imperial capital, so he was naturally classified into the rebellious camp.

To sum up, Liu Yu, the king of Chengdu, Zhu Tianpeng, the king of Qi, Li Shimin, the king of Tang, Yang Guang, the king of Sui, Hong Xiuquan, the king of heaven, Yuan Shu, the marquis of Yu, and the Ming dynasty of Jizhou and Xuzhou, all belonged to the rebellious camp.

The princes who belonged to the Han camp were: Qin Hao, Duke of Qin, Liu Ji, King of Shu, Zhao Kuangyin, Duke of Song, Cao Cao, Duke of Wei, Sun Jian, Marquis of Wu, Song Jiang of Liang, and Gongsun Xuanyuan of Liao.

Of course, many of these princes ostensibly agreed with the imperial court, but in fact they did not listen to the announcement, and the imperial court did not have any binding force on them.

As for the neutral camp, it is neither biased towards the Han camp nor towards the rebel camp, only for its own sake.

The princes who belonged to the neutral camp were: Yuan Shao, Marquis of Zhao, Han Fu, Liu Che, Marquis of Yan, Liu Xiu of Chu, Ma Teng and Han Sui of Liangzhou, and Shixie of Jiaozhou.

Liu Xiuben, the Marquis of Chu, also belonged to the Han camp, after all, he was also one of the princes of the Thirty-six Roads of Dong, but Qin Hao, the Duke of Qin, suppressed him too hard, and he could not develop at all in the Han camp, but he was still restrained everywhere, so that he was forced into the neutral camp.

Of course, this is also Qin Hao's fundamental purpose of maliciously suppressing Liu Xiu, Qin Hao even wanted to force Liu Xiu into the rebellious camp, but Liu Xiu was not fooled.

The Han camp, the rebellious camp, and the neutral camp are the three major groups in the world at that moment.

Among the three major groups, the Han camp is the strongest, occupying more than half of the world's land and population, while the neutral and rebellious camps are equally powerful, dividing the other half of the land and population.

In the future, the game between the major princes will also revolve around the three major groups.

Soon after Cao Cao was crowned duke, Liu Che, the marquis of Yan, a neutral camp, wanted to get closer to the Han camp, so he took the merit of repelling the Manchu Qing and asked the court to be named the king of Yan.

Youzhou is Qin Hao's target for the next round of expansion, so it is naturally impossible for him to let Liu Che join his camp in this way.

The Luoyang court, headed by Qin Hao, believed that the person who had the greatest credit for repelling the Manchu invasion was Gongsun Xuanyuan, and Liu Che only played an auxiliary role, but considering that Liu Che was a relative of the Han family and inherited Liu Yu's political legacy, he was renamed the Duke of Yan, and Gongsun Xuanyuan was also crowned the Duke of Liao.

Liu Che's failure to ask for the title of king also represented Qin Hao's Han camp and refused him to join, and of course, what annoyed him even more was that Qin Hao attributed the main credit for repelling the Manchu Qing to Gongsun Xuanyuan.

If he hadn't led the Yan army to support, Gongsun Xuanyuan would have been wiped out by Wanyan Agu.

Although Liu Che was extremely annoyed in his heart, he couldn't do anything about Qin Hao, who occupied the righteousness, so he wanted to regain the name of orthodoxy from Qin Hao's hands, and at the worst of all, it also undermined the legitimacy of the Luoyang Imperial Court.

Under the banner of Qin Hao's threat, Liu Che secretly contacted other neutral princes, as well as the Han clan relatives in various places, wanting to break Qin Hao's monopoly on the Han camp and achieve the goal of splitting the Han camp.

Of course, there are many difficulties in this, Qin Hao's threat has not yet appeared, and the major princes only care about themselves, and they can't take care of Qin Hao's potential threat for the time being.

It wasn't until Qin Hao used troops against Hebei that the princes of the major neutral camps felt threatened, and Liu Che completed his goal of splitting the Han camp.